Style formating of multiline query, advise

[someone]

On Mar 18, 2:51 pm, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Mar 18, 11:25 pm, someone <petshm... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > what is good :) style for multiline queries to database?
> > Is that one ok?
> > query = """ SELECT * FROM (
> >                    SELECT a.columna, a.columnb, a.iso
> >                       FROM all a
> >                       WHERE (a.name = LOWER(%s))  ) AS c
> >                  JOIN other as b on c.gid = b.id
> >                  WHERE class = 'A'
> >                  ORDER BY population DESC
> >                  LIMIT %s;"""
>
> There's no tablet of stone, like PEP 8 :-) It seems to be a matter of
> individual taste; clarity and consistency and not overdoing
> parentheses count for me.
>
> IMO you have too much leading whitespace, you have "as" in upper,

thanks for reply.
So, no indentation? query is inside of function, of course.

> lower and no case, and I'd set out the inner select differently:
>
> query = """
>     SELECT * FROM (
>         SELECT a.columna, a.columnb, a.iso
>         FROM all AS a
>         WHERE a.name = LOWER(%s)
>         ) AS c
>     JOIN other AS b ON c.gid = b.id
>     WHERE class = 'A'
>     ORDER BY population DESC
>     LIMIT %s;
> """
>
> Cheers,
> John